Rehearsal Dinner Rating: 95 La Famiglia 250 West Main Street Smithtown, NY 11787 La Famiglia Website
We had the “rehearsal dinner” on Thursday September 23. We didn’t do an actual rehearsal, we only had the dinner. The dinner was held at La Famiglia in Smithtown. We had 40 people and had the family style catering. They had 4 tables set up for us ( 10 people each). They way it worked was we picked some dishes off their menu and they made 1 of each per table and everyone at the table shared. If you go to their website you can see the menu. Here are the items we had: Appetizers: fried calamari, mozzarella sticks, baked clams, eggplant rollatini, tri-color salad. Pastas: Campagnola and Penne alla vodka. Entrees: Chicken Marsala, Sole Oreganata, Eggplant Parmigiana. Dessert: Fresh pastries. Full Bar. For all 40 people the total price including full bar was $1200. They don't charge per person, they charge per dish of food. The drinks were at least 1/2 of the bill so my suggestion to save money would not to have the full bar and just do wine and soda. The food was excellent! One of my concerns when booking the place was we were going to run out of food because of the family style way of serving... I though some people would take more then their fair share and other people would be left with nothing. That didn't happen! There was MORE than enough food to go around. They packed up all of the leftovers for us which was great because my MIL had family from OOT staying at her house. The service was excellent. And we had 1/2 of the restaurant to ourselves .
I believe it was myasmom who recommended this site to me. The invitations were 35% off and arrived in 7 days. There was one typo on them (something was capitalized that shouldnt have been) but it was something minor and since I was short on time I left them. If you do order from this place just check immediately for errors because they will fix it within 1 week only. Other than that everything was great... customer service, quality, and delivery.
DJ Tommy's Tunes Rating: 95 Tommy's Tunes Website Dan & Justin were the names of our DJ and MC (i forgot which was which). We wanted Joe E. but he was booked, but I am very happy with the guys we got. They were awesome!! The dance floor was packed the entire night. I have a few complaints but nothing major. First, they played 2 songs twice. I used 'Naughty Girl' as the bouquet throwing song and they played it again later on. They also played our last song 'My Everything' in the beginning of the wedding and again as the last song. Before the wedding we requested they play a polka and an italian song (for our families) and they never played the polka, but the dance floor was packed all night so I guess they were trying to keep it that way by playing more of the dancing music. If nobody was dancing these things might have bothered me, but they had the crowd going all night long so I really can't complain. I made my way around to all of the tables before dinner, so from after dinner until the end of the night I was dancing. There wasn't one song I didn't like! I gave them a Play List and they played everything except for the polka. They also followed my do not play list. I am very picky with music! Overall everything was great! I went to a friends wedding 2 weeks later and she used Tommys Tunes also, again the dancefloor was packed the whole night. My sister also used them in March. My uncle started the whole Tommys Tunes thing for his wedding 7 years ago! My family has been using them since then, like for my cousins sweet 16, sisters wedding, etc. Our package was the one for about $1800, I don't remember because Tommy gave us a 'family' discount. We had the light show. It was great for the dancing but honestly it messed up a few of my proofs! So if I had to do it again I wouldnt get the light show. We didnt give any giveaways and no one missed them. I would definatley use Tommys Tunes if I had to do it again.
Julie I have some questions for you. I am not to sure how we can talk but I really need your help with my wedding plans. I am getting married May 15 and I don't have much done. You were very helpful with your reviews and I am thinking about using Duet . I went to their website and your pictures are all over them. I was very surprised by that. Did you really like them? I live in LI too. It seems that I am not to far from you because you took your engagement pictures right near my house. Please if you can help let me know. Brenda
